Pilar Ternera

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Marquez creates two distinct types of women in Macondo-- the mother-figure, and the seductress. These women are the “two mother progenitors of the Buendía family in One Hundred Years: Úrsula Iguarán and Pilar Ternera” (Corwin 65). Ursula symbolizes the welcoming mother-figure who cares for all children, regardless of whether she carried them. In contrast, Pilar Ternera represents the seductress who comes into the Buendia household and transforms young boys into men. Even though “these women do not directly participate in the intellectual adventure of deciphering Melquiades manuscript, nor do they receive the tutelage of the semi divine gypsy, [...] down the generations, [they] illuminate a path toward possible redemption through love” (Rose 80-81). Ursula is a constant in Jose’s life, she continuously supports him even if she does not agree with him; while Pilar bestows upon Jose Arcadio the gift of fatherhood when she bears his child. These women help the men in their lives have something more meaningful than finding routes, and that is human connection through love. …show more content…
Ursula “would represent the image of Chía; Pilar Ternera, who bears two grandsons of José Arcadio and Úrsula, arranges trysts and ends in a wicker chair in a brothel, surrounded by weeping prostitutes, is much in keeping with the image of Bachué” (Corwin 65). Chia is seen as the motherly figure and “the good goddess who emerges from the Iguaque lagoon with a three year old child, her own” and she eventually “returns to the lagoon, or becomes the moon, depending on the sources of the myth” (64). While Bachue is known as the temptress and “goddess of drunken debauchery” (64). She “emerges from the same lagoon with her three year old son in tow, and at his coming of age procreates and populates the land with him. Bachué [...] is turned into an owl as punishment for her incest” (
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